We're a damn good ...

[Tom Hamill \'85]

I just love Coach Taylor's comment to Jason Moy on uscho.com:

"We're a damn good 10th place hockey team."

That sounds like material for the Faithful:

"10th Place Hockey Team" [clap,clap, clap-clap-clap]  ....

Wish I could be there to lead the cheer...

- Tom (cuddling his 56 kbps modem tonight)

[Greg Berge]

I can just hear...

"Tenth place... first place... tenth place... first place..."

[Tom Hamill \'85]

"Which Team is the 10th Place Team?"

"Which Team is the First Place Team?"

[marty]

Hey Tom do you get any picture from Hockeycam over the modem?  I have asked this of other modem users and don't think I have ever received an answer.  (If I did I sure didn't read the reply.)

Tonight of course you can try to catch it on cable or a dish!

[Tom Hamill \'85]

Got to admit that I have never tried the hockeycam. Maybe that's a reason to do cable modem sometime soon.

And sigh, I confess that I have other commitments tonight, so for our imminent victory I won't even be hugging my modem (call me PW'ed).

[Dianne 99]

Marty, I tried the hockeycam over the modem last year and it wasn't worth the effort.  I have not tried this year because my modem connection is always a maximum of 31k so I figure it's not worth even trying.  If you can actually connect near 56k it might be worth the effort, but I can't really say for sure.  I have a hard enough time just keeping the audio going.  But for tonight, DIRECTV RULES!!!!  Go NESN!

[Beeeej]

Yale is now a damn good golf team.:-D

Beeeej

[ugarte]

They are probably just damn good for a 10th place golf team.

[KeithK]

In fairness to Tim Taylor, Yale was a damn good 10th place team.  We just showed 'em that we are a damn good 1st place team.  And 1 beats 10...

[ugarte]

And why are we doing anything "in fairness to Tim Taylor"?  I'm much happier just busting on him for having the audacity to pretend he had a chance.

[KeithK]

Good point.

[RichS]

He did have a chance...and this was hardly a walkover for cornell.

Perhaps you should acknowledge that and give them a dash of credit.

[jtwcornell91]

I think we all knew Yale was a scary first-round opponent, given the trouble we had with them earlier in the season.  It is getting a little tiresome hearing teams that finished ten points behind us in the standings claim they're better than us.

All in all, it was actually a good series: cleanly played (although not as cleanly as the scarcity of penalties called by D.Murphy might imply), the Yale band were entertaining guests (I really hope the NESN broadcast got part of "Uncle Fucka"), and the banter never got mean-spirited. Probably closer than a 1/10 series should have been, but as noted, there was very little difference between #3 and #11, and Yale was a team that matched up especially well against Cornell.  Full marks to the Yale organization (although I'll be happy not to hear "Bulldog, bulldog, bow wow wow" for a while), and congrats to the Red for rolling on to the Mecca of American amateur hockey for the league championships.  I'll be there Thursday cheering for RPI for a multitude of reasons.  (Hard to say what the sentiment will be for the first semi.  Ordinarily, the half of the Faithful who like Clarkson would be for them and the half who dislike them would still rather see Harvard lose, but I could see a strategic support of the Crimson a la 1996 to try and set up a Cornell-Harvard final.)

[Al DeFlorio]

>"Perhaps you should acknowledge that and give them a dash of credit."

Do you mean something like the "credit" you gave Cornell two weeks ago after the win over Clarkson?

"I know the cornell folks are going to scream "whining" about this but the fact is that they have gotten away with a lot of clutch and grab stuff the past two seasons. Last season a number of ECAC coaches complained about their style of play. It doesn't show up in the PMs simply because the officials aren't calling those restraining fouls. Kotyra missed a beauty in the second period right in front on a good Tech scoring chance."

Sounds more like a "whine" than "credit," don't you think?

[ugarte]

When I meet Tim Taylor, I will give him a "hail fellow well met" and congratulate him on the sporting effort his team put in.  

Until then, when chatting amongst friends in my own house, Tim Taylor and Yale can go scratch.